Senior Interconnection Manager
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Highland Electric FleetsRenewable Energy
RemoteFull-TimeSenior
Salary150,000 - 175,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of directly related professional experience.
- Required Skills
- Project Management
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree, or 8+ years of directly related professional experience.
- Substantial experience working with electric utilities including interconnection, new service requests, and service upgrades.
- Program or portfolio management experience coordinating many concurrent projects and external partners.
- Demonstrated ability to move utility applications and approvals forward on aggressive timelines.
- Demonstrated experience negotiating phased or partial interconnection agreements with utilities.
- Familiarity with interconnection standards and utility processes like IEEE 1547 and state rules (preferred).
- Experience with BESS, solar, EV charging, or data center power development (preferred).
- Experience working alongside permitting authorities having jurisdiction (AHJs) and engineering consultants (preferred).
- Prior experience at or embedded with an electric utility (preferred).
- PMP or equivalent certification (preferred).
Responsibilities
- Own the utility interconnection and new-service program across Highland's development portfolio, from early diligence through energized service.
- Lead utility diligence to confirm each site's buildability including capacity, service voltage, timelines, and costs.
- Prepare and manage new utility service and interconnection applications, driving them to approval on an aggressive schedule.
- Serve as the primary point of contact with electric utilities, managing timelines, budgets, and escalations.
- Functionally lead and quality-check the external partners performing utility diligence and application work.
- Keep utility workstreams tracking in parallel with design and permitting to meet project milestones.
- Manage rate schedule and tariff selection.
- Contribute utility upgrade and service costs to project budgets.
- Build and maintain a repository of utility requirements, processes, and contacts to standardize engagement.
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